Placket-fastener



(No Model.)

K. W. LEAF. PLACKET FASTENER.

Patented Feb 8, 1898.

KARL W. LEAF, OF QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS.

PLACKET- FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 598, 612, datedFebruary 8, 1898. Application filed August 5, 1897. Serial No. 647,174.(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL W. LEAF, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of Quincy, in the county of Norfolk and State of Massachusetts,have invented new and useful Improvements in Placket-Holders forGarments, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawings, is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in placket-holders for garments,and it is carried out as follows, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, wherein-- Figure 1 represents a rear elevation ofa garment provided with my improved placketholder, showing the placketjoint closed. Fig. 2 represents a similar rear elevation of a garment,showing the placket-joint expanded. Fig. 3 represents an interior viewof the garment, showing the placket-holder expanded. Fig. 4 represents adetail perspective view showing the placket-holder in an expandedposition. Fig. 5 represents a longitudinal section of Fig. .4. Fig. 6represents a rear perspective View of the placket-holder shown closed.Fig. 7 represents a side view of said placket-holder shown closed; andFig.

8 represents an enlarged cross-section on the line 8 8 shown in Fig. 7.y

Similar letters refer to similar parts wherever they occur onthedifferent parts of the drawings. In the drawings, A represents the skirtor garment, of which 13 is the waistband or portion to be closed aroundthe body of the wearer, as usual.

0 represents the placket-opening, as usual.

My improved placket-holder is shown in detailin Figs. 4-, 5, 6, 7, and8, and is composed of a bar or plate D, pivoted at its lower end at'E toa locking-bar F, which is longitudinally grooved or U -shaped insection,so as to receive the plate D when the placket-holder is closed,as shown in Figs. 6, 7, and 8. To the upper end of the plate D issecured a headed button or suitable fastener G, adapted to be lockedinto buttonholes f f in the upper portion of the grooved locking-bar F,as shown. In practice I prefer to make such buttonholes suffiicientlylarge in one end to readily receive the head of the button G, andreduced in its inner end to receive the shank of the button,

thus holding the parts locked together when the placket-holder isclosed, as shown in Figs. 1, 6, 7, and 8.

H is a suitable spring secured within the locking-bar F, against whichthe bar D is pressed during the locking operation, and said springserves to hold the button G in locked position within the reducedportion of the buttonholes f when the placketholder is closed, as shownin Figs. 1, 6, 7, and 8.

The rear of the locking-plate F is preferably slitted at its upperportion, as shown at F in Figs. 5, 6, and 8, so as to permit the sidesof the grooved or U-shaped locking-bar F to be expanded laterally whilelooking and unlocking the button G relative to the elongated buttonholesff in the upper portion of the locking-bar F.

The plates or bars D F are sewed or otherwise secured in a suitablemanner to the edges of the placket-opening O, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3,and 8.

To close the placket-holder, it is only necessary to swing the parts Dand F together against the influence of the spring H, and to lock thebuttons G on the part D in the buttonholes f, causing the said spring Hto hold the shank of said buttons locked in 'the reduced portions of thesaid buttonholes, thus keeping the placket closed and locked in closedposition until released and unlocked by the wearer.

What I wish to secure by Letters Patent and claim isa Theherein-described placket-holder consisting in combination, a bar D and agrooved and laterally-expansive locking-bar F pivoted together at theirlower ends, a spring H interposed between said bars and buttons VGsecured to the upper end of the opposite sides of the member D andadapted to interlock with buttonholes fin the upper end of the member F,substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I.have signed my name to this specification, in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses, on this 24th day of June, A. D.1897.

KARL W. LEAF.

Witnesses:

ALBAN ANDREN, CHARLES E. lVIAXWELL.

